"There's a team that he's associated with there's people that work in the shop, there's people he travels with, there's a team owner, manager, that's a huge loss for everyone of those people. Those are the people that we need to be praying for," Davis said.

Davis said he feels safer when his own kids are on the track.

"I'm more worried about my children driving to school in the morning or back-and-forth from the races at three or four o'clock in the morning coming home from a race. I'm more worried about that I do when they're in their racecar on the race track," Davis said.

Drivers on dirt tracks said they have similar safety setups in their cars

"We wear five point restraints, neck braces, fire suits. Indy drivers they got a little bit better neck braces on them really all about the same safety equipment as we wear," said Colton Miesner, a dirt track driver.

When David saw the crash on his friends phone, he instantly saw that there was a problem.

"Looks as normal as it can be, you got a car spinning, they're in the wall, just a melee. I don't know what happened to two cars way up in front of him, but there's obviously a problem developed up ahead of them," Davis said.

"When something like this happens it's almost a shock. You don't want it to happen," Johnston said.

"I don't ever confuse a race driver as being a thrill seeker; he is not. Most race drivers, when they're racing like that right there, they are as calm and as collected as they can be," Davis said.

It was September 2010 that a Siloam Springs racing official was critically injured after several cars crashed.